Alone With Lions: Thru-Hiking the ‘PNT’

The author senses something during this section of the Pacific Northwest Trail from Metaline Falls To Oroville, Wash. His story will make you shiver.

Written by Sean McCoy

6 MIN READ

August 19, 2014 10:28 a.m. EDT

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A huge buck in velvet near town; all photos by Jeff Kish

Sharing water with the cows

An old logger truck

The ruins of Lind Ranch

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